【推荐1】Hello, my name is Mike Brown. I have a friend. Her ________ is Linda Green. Her ________ name is Linda. Her last name is Green. Here is a photo ________ her family. These ________ her parents. ________ father’s name’s Bob. He is 38. He is a teacher at No.2 Middle School. Her mother’s name’s Kate. She is a teacher, ________. She is at No.1 Middle School. ________ is that boy next to her father? He is Linda’s brother, Dale. He is a student（学生）at a middle ________. And the girl next to Dale is Linda’s sister, Mary. Is that girl Linda? ________, she is next to her mother. A dog is in the ________, too. The dog’s name is Coco. What color is it? It’s white and black.

【推荐2】It was Katia’s 13th birthday. Her friends planned to _______ a special birthday party for her at Mia, her favorite restaurant. The party would start at 7 o’clock. Katia was excited and got to the _______ at 7 o’clock. She looked for her friends, but she didn’t find any of them. So she decided to _______ outside.

The place was quickly filled with people, but _______ of them were Katia’s friends. “Where are they?” she thought. At half past seven, she was still waiting. Later, she called her best friend Isa. “Why doesn’t she answer my phone?” Katia asked herself. Then she called Jony, Alex and Yoko, but they didn’t _______ either. “What’s going on?” she _______.

Katia went home at 8 o’clock. She thought her friends didn’t want to celebrate her birthday with her, so she felt _______. She opened the front _______ and walked into the dark house. The door of her bedroom was closed. “It’s not _______,” she thought, because she left it open before leaving the house. Being scared, she opened the door. Suddenly, the lights were turned on and all her friends jumped up and shouted “Surprise!” In fact, they didn’t ________ Katia’s birthday. After that, they had a wonderful party.

【推荐3】The Spring Festival is one of the most important holidays in China. Last year, I had the chance to _______ it with a family of one of my dear Chinese Friends in a little town in China’s Guizhou Province. The _______ was interesting.

I arrived after my friend’s family had cleaned their house, and done their shopping, so they were kind of _______. My friend showed me around the town every day.

On New Year’s Eve, I enjoyed a big meal with my friend’s family. We watched a special show on TV. As I _______ understand Chinese well, the time seemed to pass very slowly. When midnight came, everyone in the house shouted in _______.

Every morning in the following days, I _______ because of the sounds of firecrackers (鞭炮) as early as 5 am. My friend told me that people were chasing off evil spirits (赶走邪灵). He took me to visit _______ relatives (亲戚) during the day. We were usually invited to stay for dinner. We once happened to see a lion dance on the street. Every shop owner was happy if the “lions” stopped by their shop, _______ that usually means good luck will come.

Before   I left,   my   friend’s   parents   handed   me   a   red     envelope (信封) _______ some money in it. The father said it was to protect me on the road, bring me good luck and wish me a happy new year. It felt like I was part of the _______, though I couldn’t chat (聊天) with the parents at all.